[MPlayer-cvslog] r33490 - trunk/configure

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 07:14:53PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> On 5/24/11, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 01:35:28PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> >> On 5/24/11, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:19:10AM +0200, cehoyos wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Log:
> >> >> Revert r33368, it broke mingw32 compilation.
> >> >
> >> > Revert this, I made it very clear I'm against this and that it needs
> >> > to be fixed upstream instead.
> >>
> >> We could discuss its removal AFTER the upstream is fixed.
> >
> > No, we can discuss adding this convenience workaround after
> > upstream is fixed.  The important part is getting upstream
> > fixed, not working around their bugs and never notifying them.
> 
> Well, you already had success with convincing mingw64 developers, I'm
> quite sure you can easily do it again with the mingw32 ones.

I likely could, but so could you, I have full faith in your abilities.
Let's share some work instead of flaming here.  Plus, for you it would
be a learning experience while it would just be a boring repetition
for me...

> Do you need mplayer to be broken, in order to use it as argument to
> press mingw32 developers into fixing their setup? IMHO posix
> compatibility should be good enough reason.

Now that you mention it, good point :)

> BTW I couldn't find your mail/post/ticket to mingw64. You did contact
> them through their public channels, didn't you? Presenting that thread
> to mingw32 should provide some weight.

I joined their IRC channel, it was easy enough.

> >> This fixes actual bug and you have overridden my maintainer status for
> >> much lesser issues (aka fixing warnings).
> >
> > Nonsense.
> 
> I guess you have forgotten the "Remove redundant XShmGetEventBase
> declaration" thread.

Of all the trolling you have done over the years, this one is indeed
one of your masterpieces - and indeed the competition is fierce...

Diego